Lawyer rankings

Zhenghe Liu

Position

Mr Liu has been working in area of employment law, social security law and union law since 2000. He provides comprehensive legal services in these areas including arbitration and litigation, human resources risk assessment and prevention, employment planning, employment due diligence and structuring in mergers and acquisitions, and other non-litigation matters. He is well recognized by clients and the legal community for his practice and academic study. His in-depth understanding of employer-employee relationship and Chinese culture and society enables him to provide sound legal advice as well as practical solutions. His clients include multinationals, state-owned enterprises and private companies in a wide range of industries such as Communications/Electronics, Finance, Logistics, Energy, Real-estate and Lifesciences. He currently serves as the perennial employment legal adviser for Beijing Mobile, DHL, Taubman China, Hanergy, Aruba Networks, Foreign Talent Consulting Company, Xin-dong-an Property and dozens other companies and institutions in China. Before he started his private practice, Mr Liu was a public lawyer for Beijing General Unions. He was deeply involved in lawmaking process of employment legislations and union legal affairs management. He has in-depth understanding and rich practical experience in the area of unions, employee rights protection, collective contracts, collective wage negotiations and other related matters. He is a perennial legal advisor of the Federation of Trade Unions of Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, Daimler Investment(Great China) Union, Ping An Bank Union, Microsoft Mobile Union and NOKIA Communications Network Technology Union.

Career

Qualified to practice law since 2007; Public lawyer ,Beijing General Union; partner, JingYue Law Firm; partner, AnJie Law Firm 2015 to date.

Languages

Chinese, English.

Member

Academic Secretary and Director, Beijing Labor Law and Social Security Law Society; Arbitrator, Beijing Arbitration Commission of Labor and Personnel Affairs; Deputy Secretary, Labor and Social Security Law Professional Committee of Beijing Lawyersâ€™ Association.

Education

Renmin University of China, School of Law, LL.M; Dalian Maritime University, School of Law, LL.B.

Leisure

Reading and photography.

China: Labour and employment

Labour and employment: PRC firms

Within: Labour and employment: PRC firms

With expertise across a range of contentious and non-contentious matters, AnJie Law FirmÂ is known for providing 'comprehensive business and legal advice at a tremendous value'. Jointly led byÂ Zhenghe LiuÂ andÂ Hongquan Yang, the team has been particularly active in disputes concerning violations of non-compete agreements, and continues to be involved in a variety of employment litigation and arbitration. Liu, who can 'quickly come to grips with a client's business goals and legal requirements', advised a Sino-foreign joint venture agricultural company on multiple employee terminations and related arbitrations; he also handled a mass redundancy exercise for an international energy company. Yang provides ongoing compliance and litigation advice to clients such as Oracle. The team also has experience of handling the employment aspects of various corporate and organisational restructuring projects. Yiche, Daimler Greater China Labour Union and Hippo Culture and Technology are among the department's clients.

On
April 10, 2018, President Xi Jinping attended the Boao Forum for Asia (â€śBFAâ€ť)
Annual Conference 2018 and delivered a keynote speech stressing that â€śChina
will remain unchanged its adherence to reforming and opening up, and will continue
to launch new, major measures to pursue further opening.â€ť Following this
speech, the National Development and Reform CommissionÂ (â€śNDRCâ€ť) published its
Answers to Reportsâ€™ Questions Regarding
Promulgating New Negative List of Foreign Investment (â€śNegative Listâ€ť) and
Opening-Up of the Manufacturing Industry (â€śAnswersâ€ť) on the official
website of the Central Government. Through this document, the NDRC expressed
its efforts to accelerate its pace to formulate a new Negative List along with
other relevant departments, which echoed the major measures mentioned in
President Xiâ€™s speech. It also stressed that the manufacturing industry will be
the priority in the new Negative List, and easing the restrictions on foreign
investment in the automotive industry will be the focus in this prioritized
area.

According to WIPOâ€™s information, China has overtaken Japan to claim the second place as a source of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications in the passed year. Â In 2017, U.S.-based applicants numbered 56,624 PCT, followed by China (48,882) and Japan (48,208). Â Another positive statistics comes from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, which reveals the volume of trade of Chinese IP royalties totaled 33.384 billion USD in 2017, a 32.7 percent increase from 2016.Â